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Catherine Breillat

Author : Douglas Keesey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526110660
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Catherine Breillat written by Douglas Keesey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and The Last Mistress. This volume explores the director's complex relation to religion and to feminism, and it examines the differences between Breillat's films and patriarchal pornography, engaging in detailed analysis of her intimate scenes between men and women. Keesey also discusses the literature, films, paintings and photos that have influenced Breillat's work, and extends this to show how Breillat's films have influenced other filmmakers and artists in turn. A lively and accessible introduction, this book will appeal to students and researchers, as well as all those with an interest in gender studies, French film and contemporary cinema.

The Cinema of Catherine Breillat

Author : Sophie Bélot
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343849
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Catherine Breillat written by Sophie Bélot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cinema of Catherine Breillat, Bélot offers a detailed analysis of Breillat’s past and recent films. Breillat is one of the most internationally renowned French women filmmakers whose notoriety is built on her explicit representation of women’s sexuality. Most of her films rely on a female protagonist’s personal and intimate search of her self, characterised by her sexual journey. Facing censorship and controversy, Breillat’s films do not easily fit classification and place the viewer into an uncomfortable position. This study looks at Breillat as an independent cinema auteur entertaining a close relation with her films by exploring and positing women, from adolescence to adulthood, as sexual beings reflecting her films’ identity emanating from Breillat’s personal or intimate scenes.

Philosophy and Vulnerability

Author : Matthew R. McLennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135000409X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Vulnerability written by Matthew R. McLennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary “nonphilosophers” to make its argument: French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a militant philosophical universalism in the future.

The Reclining Nude

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
ISBN 13 : 1789620244
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Reclining Nude written by Emma Wilson and published by Contemporary French and Franco. This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a sensuous evocation of images of the reclining nude, claims a female-identified pleasure in looking. Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan Goldin are re-imagining images of female beauty, display, (auto)eroticism, and intimacy. The reclining nude is compelling, for female-identified artists in the ethically adventurous, politically complex feminist issues it engages.

The Body and the Screen

Author : Kate Ince
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623562929
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Body and the Screen written by Kate Ince and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature film. This new volume in the “Thinking Cinema” series draws on feminist philosophers and theorists from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities. Mainstream entertainment cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women, objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency, and avoiding the most important questions about how cinema can "do justice" to female subjectivity. Kate Ince suggests that the films of independent women directors are progressively redressing the balance, reinvigorating both the narratives and the formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist philosophers to interpret such films as Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank anew, suggesting that a philosophical understanding of female subjectivity as embodied and ethical should underpin future feminist film study.

Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing

Author : Roger Crittenden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113605409X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing written by Roger Crittenden and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of many of the greatest living European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews which offer a unique insight into the art of editing - direct from masters of the craft. In their interviews the editors relate their experience to the directors they have worked with, including: Agnes Guillemot- (Godard, Truffaut, Catherine Breillat) Roberto Perpignani- (Welles, Bertolucci, Tavianni Brothers) Sylvia Ingemarsson- (Ingmar Bergman) Michal Leszczylowski- (Andrei Tarkovsky, Lukas Moodysson) Tony Lawson (Nic Roeg, Stanley Kubrick, Neil Jordan) and many more. Foreword by Walter Murch - three-time Oscar-winning Editor of 'Apocalypse Now', 'The English Patient', 'American Graffiti', 'The Conversation' and 'The Godfather Part II and III'.

The Irresistible Fairy Tale

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400841828
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Irresistible Fairy Tale written by Jack Zipes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authorities If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. In this book, renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold—and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory, and other fields, Zipes presents a nuanced argument about how fairy tales originated in ancient oral cultures, how they evolved through the rise of literary culture and print, and how, in our own time, they continue to change through their adaptation in an ever-growing variety of media. In making his case, Zipes considers a wide range of fascinating examples, including fairy tales told, collected, and written by women in the nineteenth century; Catherine Breillat's film adaptation of Perrault's "Bluebeard"; and contemporary fairy-tale drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that critique canonical print versions. While we may never be able to fully explain fairy tales, The Irresistible Fairy Tale provides a powerful theory of how and why they evolved—and why we still use them to make meaning of our lives.

Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema

Author : Troy Bordun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319658948
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema written by Troy Bordun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined ‘extreme cinema’. In Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand generic classifications. Bordun contends that their films make it apparent that genre is not established prior to the viewing of a work but is recollected and assembled by spectators in ways that matter for them in both personal and experiential terms. The author deploys contemporary film theories on the senses, both phenomenological and affect theory, and partakes in close readings of the films’ forms and narratives. The book thus adds to the present literature on extreme cinema and film theory, yet sets itself apart by fully deploying genre theory alongside the methodological and stylistic approaches of Stanley Cavell, Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks, and Eugenie Brinkema.

Fairy Tales Transformed?

Author : Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081433928X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Fairy Tales Transformed? written by Cristina Bacchilega and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.

Cinema and Sensation

Author : Martine Beugnet
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328567
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Cinema and Sensation written by Martine Beugnet and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cinema and Sensation: " "French Film and the Art of Transgression" looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the reemergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses.France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinema s sensory impact and transgressive nature: "Adieu"; "A ma soeur"; "Baise-moi"; "Beau Travail"; "La Blessure"; "La Captive"; "Dans ma peau"; "Demonlover"; "L Humanite"; "Flandres"; "L Intrus"; "Les Invisibles"; "Lady Chatterley"; "Lecons de tenebres"; "Romance"; "Sombre"; "Tiresia"; "Trouble Every Day"; "Twentynine Palms"; "Vendredi soir"; "La Vie nouvelle"; "Wild Side"; and "Zidane, un portrait du XXIeme siecle." These films, among others, typify a willingness to explore cinema s unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually.Martine Beugnet focuses on the crucial and fertile overlaps that occur between experimental and mainstream cinema. Her book draws on the writings of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and Bataille, among others, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques, and motifs that allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processes. In turn, she demonstrates how the films, envisaged as forms of embodied thought, offer alternative ways of approaching today s most burning sociocultural debatesfrom the growing supremacy of technology, to globalization, exile, and exclusion."

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

Author : Catherine Millet
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847655823
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Sexual Life of Catherine M. written by Catherine Millet and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and beautiful detail. A phenomenal bestseller throughout Europe, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., like Fifty Shades of Grey, breaks with accepted ideas of sex and examines many alternative manifestations of desire. Told in spare, elegant prose, her story will shock, enlighten and liberate you.

The Ravenous Audience

Author : Kate Durbin
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1933354887
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Ravenous Audience written by Kate Durbin and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling debut volume, the latest in Chris Abani's Black Goat Poetry Series.

Brutal Intimacy

Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819570001
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Brutal Intimacy written by Tim Palmer and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brutal Intimacy is the first book to explore the fascinating films of contemporary France, ranging from mainstream genre spectaculars to arthouse experiments, and from wildly popular hits to films that deliberately alienate the viewer. Twenty-first-century France is a major source of international cinema—diverse and dynamic, embattled yet prosperous—a national cinema offering something for everyone. Tim Palmer investigates France's growing population of women filmmakers, its buoyant vanguard of first-time filmmakers, the rise of the controversial cinema du corps, and France's cinema icons: auteurs like Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Bruno Dumont, Gaspar Noé, and stars such as Vincent Cassel and Jean Dujardin. Analyzing dozens of breakthrough films, Brutal Intimacy situates infamous titles alongside many yet to be studied in the English language. Drawing on interviews and the testimony of leading film artists, Brutal Intimacy promises to be an influential treatment of French cinema today, its evolving rivalry with Hollywood, and its ambitious pursuits of audiences in Europe, North America, and around the world.

Troubled Everyday

Author : Alison Taylor
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474415237
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Troubled Everyday written by Alison Taylor and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the everyday that so often frames and forms the majority of these films? Why do the sudden moments of violence that punctuate films like Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001), Gaspar Noe's Irreversible (2002) and Markus Schleinzer's Michael (2011) seem so reliant on everyday routines and settings for their impact? Addressing these questions through a series of case-studies, and considering notorious films in their historical and philosophical context, Troubled Everyday offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.

Cinema at the Shore

Author : Fiona Handyside
Publisher : Peter Lang Copyright AG - Ipsuk
ISBN 13 : 9781803742021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Cinema at the Shore written by Fiona Handyside and published by Peter Lang Copyright AG - Ipsuk. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema at the Shore argues that some of the most iconic moments in French cinema are associated with the beach, rather than the Parisian cityscape. Examining films from the 1950s to the present, from Brigitte Bardot in her bikini to François Ozon's queer cinema, this book offers new ways of conceiving of the spacial politics of French cinema.

France on Film

Author : Lucy Mazdon
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364086
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book France on Film written by Lucy Mazdon and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays is a comprehensive introduction to the concerns and styles which characterise contemporary popular French film.

Screening Youth

Author : Romain Chareyron
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474449441
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Screening Youth written by Romain Chareyron and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been a body of work addressing the richness and complexity of this topic in a French and Francophone context. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns. Showing how the topic of 'youth' has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions - political, social, religious, economic or cultural - that agitate a society at a given time in its history.